The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-10-06

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were also reported back by the commit
tee:
Resolved, That it is the sentiment O
this Encampment that the Unite,
| States Government should furnish 6
each honorablY discharged soldier
sailor or marine, on application by him
self or through an agent, his medica
record as found IN the archives of tn
Surgeon Generals Office at Washing
! ton.
Resolved, That fthese resolution b,
properly brought to the attention OF
Congress by the Pension Committee o.
this Encampment, and proper agency
be brought to bear for the enactment
of q law to the above effect.
Resolved, That It is the sense of this
Encampment that there should be q
place set apart by law at the capital OF
the nation where all captured flags and
other trophies of the war shall be pre-
served and displayed. We therefore
request Congress to make such pro-
vision, and recommend the Pension
Hall as a suitable place for said pur-
pose.
An effort was made to proceed to the
election of officers and considerable
parliamentary wrangling was the re-
suit. The commander finally moved
that other business has precedence.
The cities of Columbus, Gettysburg,
Saratoga and Chattanooga presented
their claims to the location OF the next
encampment. Hurst, of Ohio made an
able speech in favor of Columbus.
Beath, of Pennsylvania, represented
Gettysburg. Before the ballot was an
nounced Chattanooga and Saratoga
withdrew, and the vote resulted in the
selection of Columbus, o.
A letter of greeting from the fifth
national convention of the Woman's
Relief Corps was received and read,
and suitable reply adopted to this
auxiliary to the G. A. B." Ad-
journed until tomorrow morning.
EVACUATION.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 30.-The evacuation
of this city by the rank and file of the
Grand Army began last night and to-
day the tented fields are deserted. The
last post left Illinois camp this morn
ing. The Ohio and Indiana tents con-
tanned a few StragglerS but the most
are gone. The Kansas army marched
headquarters at Washington park are
deserted. All interest now centers in
the encampment and hudIeds flock to
the exposition building to be near to
catch the first word of any occurrence
of Importance. General Slocum is
with the delegates making
every effort to retrieve lost ground. He
was received in his headquarters last
night by many veterans who called to
pay their respects to the gallant soldier.
Major Warner is making no personal
effort, but is in the hands of his
friends. He says he will not withdraw
as he never entered the fight, but the
honor will be greatly appreciated if
given to him. General Grier is so en-
crossed in the affairs of executive COM
mittee that he has but little time to de-
vote to his interests, and so keeps away
entirely, leaving his campaign to his
friends. Judge Rees' friends are san
guine, and, as dark horse, is forging
to the front as q most formidable can
didate. The encampment will close
with a grand campfire and
fireworks at Schneider's garden and a
banquet to the delegates at the Lin
dell hotel.
ENCANIPMENT MEETING.
The Committee on Resolutions re-
ported back the resolution offered by
VandervoOrt in regard to the veto of the
Dependent Pension Bill and pension
to Mrs. Logan, recommending the
adoption of that part which referred
to Mrs. Logan's pension, and the re-
lection of the balance on the ground
that the matter had been fully covered
by the action ON the report of the PEN
sion Committee. Vandervoort opened
the debate by claiming that the Grand
Army should have the courage of its
convictions and should vote as they
felt upon this question. GrosvenOr, of
Ohio, spoke in favor of the report and
said he had as much feeling upon the
pension question as any other man,
but he stood as the representative
of a body of men greater than
the President of the United States,
greater than the Congress of
the United States and more dignified
in their utteranceS than the President
had shown himself to be. He said the
question was more important than any
that had been submitted in National
that the question was
what the encampment ought to do;
it ought to make platform
for political parties or ought to state its
position in dignified manner as though
there never had been a President of the
United States. He said the Grand
Army should stand as a mountain
stands upon the plain, regardless of the
cayotes at the foot of it, proclaiming in
majestic words thai it was in favor of
this pension legislation and opposed to
every attack upon the interest of the
soldiers. Mcdonnell, of Indiana. spoke
upon the same side and under the oper-
alton of the previous question, Wander
Yoort'S Amendment was OVerwhelm-
ingly defeated, and the report of the
was adopted by a vote OF
3I9 to 173. The following is Wander
Yoort's resolution, which was defeated:
Resolved, That while we feel that no
body of citizens can have a more ex-
allied respect than we for the Office OF
President of the United States; that
we have manifested that by services
and sacrifices such as the world has
never seen equalled, yet this does not
obscure our perception to blameworthy
acts of the incumbent of that high
position, nor deprive us OF the right of
criticism of our public servants, which
is one of the dearest prerOgatiVes of
American citizenship.
Resolved also, That while we recog-
niZe that the disapproval OF any meas
ure presented to him by Congress is a
constitutional prerogative of the Presi-
dent, to be exercised by him according
to his discretion, yet we cannot feel
that this involves also the privilege of
going beyond the bounds OF that power,
to officially insult or stand for the
broken down and needy men to whom
the nation owes everything.
Resolved, also. That the Dependent
Pension Bill passed by the Forty-ninth
Congress and vetoed by the President,
was the least measure of justice that
could have been asked of the nation for
the men to whom it owes its salvation;
that it did not represent a 1.-THE of
what is due those gallant men, and
that in refusing to approve of a bill
which was asked for by the grateful
people, petitioned for by hundreds of
thousands of veterans. passed by both
houses of Congress by an unusual ma
jority, and which would have rescued
thousands of as deserving soldiers as
followed the flag, from the cold charity
of the almshouse, the present incum-
bent of the Office of President has
violated the pledge madeto the soldiers
when they fiocked to the standard of
their country at the time of her great
est peril, has thwarted the expressed
will of grateful people and has infiict-
ed an irTeparable cruelty upon those
who should be the objects of the ten
derest consideration.
Anthony, of Kansas made an attempt
to reconsider the report of the Com.
nittee on Resolutions by which a prop-